"Chorus: Him a sad mother, in compulsive woe, Untimely gave to birth, Then perished mid the lightning’s dazzling glow, And mid the thunder’s mirth. The Babe, to his bright chamber in the sky Did Zeus immediate bear, Enclosed with golden cinctures in his thigh, And hid from Here there. And when the destined months had past away, He gave him to the light, An antlered God, more beautiful than Day, More marvellously bright. With braided serpents were his brows entwin’d, And thence the Mænads fair, The thyrsus-bearing Bacchanals still bind Wreathed serpents in their hair."
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Euripides, Bacchae, Choral Ode to Bacchus (Murray, transl.)
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